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2015 Marks The Worst Year On Record For The Japanese Games Industry

Japan’s games industry is in dire straights right now, it seems. 2015 has marked the country’s worst in 26 years for video games, but why? Nobody really knows the definite answer, but the report by Famitsu (via Destructoid) says that Japan’s games industry was worth ¥321 billion in 2015 – a 13% drop from 2014.

Before we all start calling time on Japan’s flailing portion of the industry, we should note that the figures don’t take into account digital sales, so that means mobile gaming is excluded – an important occlusion, considering how massive mobile gaming is in Japan right now.

Anyway, here’s the top 10 most popular software and hardware for the entirety of last year.